AS/400 How does it look?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Terrence Enger wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 16:18 -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
...
> Withing AS/400 you can feel somewhat at home, even though a lot of
> installations choose not to display that facet of the system.
>
> (*) One of the command interpreters is quite similar to `bash`.  But if
> you look closely you will notice oddities like the fact that `echo`
> lacks the -n option,

    IOW, it follows the POSIX standard:

      "Implementations [of echo] shall not support any options."

    That's good.

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